Whovianime´s "Stuff I learned today"

[Whovianime]

Hello!
I created this thread to keep track of what I learn, any questions and stuff I forget. Having been doing this for some days on my profile status, I decided to create a thread with everything so far. I will update here every day or whenever I am learning something new.

Thursday at 9:56 PM
Stuff I learned today:
1. Don´t limit yourself to one OS
2. Don´t be afraid to try
3. ISO files can be fake

Yesterday at 12:11 AM
Today I learned:
1. Don´t use more than half of your RAM on VMs
2. Make sure to know how many logical cores you have.
3. My RPI3 had probably low video memory, because it was laggy as heck when I ran RPI OS for the first time. Hence for nr 4.
4. Give a good amount of video memory to VMs!
5. Virtualbox mouse intergration is poo?

Today at 12:10 AM
1. Make sure to install, not only use the live instance thingy
2.

user@place $map sudo apt install ./blablabla.deb

3. pass password manager thingy, i am confused about this
4. SSH keys? I think I understand but at the same time, my head hurts lol
5. PGP and GPG are different stuff

 

[McCloud]

3. pass password manager thingy, i am confused about this

You need to set it up with "pass init <gpg key>" where gpg key is an existing key. You can get a list of available keys with "gpg --list-secret-keys".

Once you've done this it's as simple as creating a new password entry with "pass insert <entry name>", entry name can be anything.

Then you retrieve your password with "pass <entry name>". To list possible entries use "pass" by itself.

 

[Brickwizard]

4. SSH keys? I think I understand but at the same time, my head hurts lol

2 paracetamol or a very large glass of single malt and a dark room for an hour or so will cure that...
if you have you tried inxi yet, a useful thing if you need to ask questions regarding your machine, for personal use in the terminal inxi -Fnxx and for publication on websites inxi -Fnxz

 

[MikeWalsh]

@Whovianime :-

I can understand where you're coming from with a thread like this. I did something similar when I joined the staff over at BleepingComputer some years ago...

Essentially, it's a day-by-day 'blog' for you to note stuff down, more for your own benefit than anything else. Just be aware that many people will, however, see it as asking questions, will pick you up on certain points & go into excruciating detail as to exactly how (or why) you should or shouldn't do something...

Still, if that's what you want.....you'll not be disappointed!


Mike.

 

[tpkusr]

My suggestion would be to keep track of what you have learned in a text file. If you face any problem or have any doubt about anything, ask here, and then add it to your text file as a new lesson.

 

[Whovianime]

My suggestion would be to keep track of what you have learned in a text file. If you face any problem or have any doubt about anything, ask here, and then add it to your text file as a new lesson.

Yea but that´s boring lol

 

[Whovianime]

@Whovianime :-

I can understand where you're coming from with a thread like this. I did something similar when I joined the staff over at BleepingComputer some years ago...

Essentially, it's a day-by-day 'blog' for you to note stuff down, more for your own benefit than anything else. Just be aware that many people will, however, see it as asking questions, will pick you up on certain points & go into excruciating detail as to exactly how (or why) you should or shouldn't do something...

Still, if that's what you want.....you'll not be disappointed!


Mike.

That´s my point, I want people to help me out without me making a new thread every time I need help. Also I like the idea of having my own little nook here

 

[Whovianime]

You need to set it up with "pass init <gpg key>" where gpg key is an existing key. You can get a list of available keys with "gpg --list-secret-keys".

Once you've done this it's as simple as creating a new password entry with "pass insert <entry name>", entry name can be anything.

Then you retrieve your password with "pass <entry name>". To list possible entries use "pass" by itself.

is gpg key the one with a lot of numbers and letters? I wish there was a pointer showing me exactly what is what

 

[KGIII]

This type of content is better suited for your profile. This section of the site is for asking questions about getting started.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Notice to Members @Whovianime , @McCloud , @CaffeineAddict

On my tomorrow (Queensland, Australia) I will be taking portions of the OP's posts which relate to a question, and attributing them to the OP as a new thread in General Server subforum.

I will then take the thread

https://www.linux.org/threads/answer-to-whovianimes-question.59789/

and merge that with it,

Wizard

 

[wizardfromoz]

Done.